Coming out of "en avant": what's a Pixar movie?

Coming out of "en avant": what's a Pixar movie?

Megalos toys, depressed monsters, disabled fish … Weirdness, humanity and childhood appear as well shared values in the home born under the auspices of George Lucas and Steve jobs … Before being catapulted in 2006 as part of the Disney Company. Pixar will therefore be present on the Disney + platform on March 24, 2020.

Pixar, it's like a movie school, but without the teachers. Everyone wants you to take risks, "said director Andrew Stanton, the father of nemo, wall-E and dory's world. This mischievous formula sums up the spirit of the house, between the collective of artists and the lab of experimentation. Perhaps the greatest achievement of the American studio is to have managed, one commercial triumph after the other, to keep this little pioneer side. In twenty-five years (and twenty-two feature films), he has become the undisputed giant of world animation.

And yet, every film that comes out of "school" takes risks, in its own way. In a film industry teased by fear of failure, stifled by marketing studies and the constant recycling of the same mythologies and clichés, Pixar never ceases to explode. Who else would have dared to turn an old man in mourning into a hero of family entertainment (up there)? Or glorify an obsolete and rusty robot (Wall-E), a princess without a Prince (rebel), a sewer rat passionate about gastronomy (Ratatouille), or half a character (just trousers and shoes...), in the front, the latest home film, in theatres on March 4th? If Pixar really triggered a revolution-the release in 1995 of Toy story, the first animated feature film made entirely in synthetic images-it is not only technological. Over the years, the studio has been able to create a strong identity, both aesthetically and in terms of the themes covered. Visit the common areas of a large animation "school".

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